So You Want to Start Your Own Law Firm. Now What?

The founding idea behind Scale was that there was a gap between how lawyers work and how they want to work,” said David Reidy, who left fintech startup Payactiv, where he was chief legal officer, in 2021 to become managing partner of Scale LLP, a distributed law firm that began as a Silicon Valley boutique serving startups. “There are a lot of high-quality lawyers out there looking for a new way to practice.” According to Reidy, the dominant business model in Big Law alienates attorneys for three major reasons.